The Ansari/X-Prize has been claimed!

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2004-10-06 9:04 AM

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Subject: The Ansari/X-Prize has been claimed!
Looks like our modern day space race has crowned a new champion. Yesterday, Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOnce successfully launched it's second 100km+ high mission within a week of the first (one week faster than the two week turnaround required by the X-Prize rules) to be the first privately funded, commercially viable form of space travel. I'm not sure how I'll sneak a $200,000 space flight into the home budget though... The next most likely winner was the DaVinci project from Canada. Hopefully (they have no reason not to), all of the X-Prize teams will continue their projects to launch. Exciting times indeed.

http://www.xprize.org/

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2004-10-06 12:27 PM
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Subject: RE: The Ansari/X-Prize has been claimed!
Cool;
I thought that the second flight was later in the week.
I'll start saving my pennies now...
Ian
2004-10-06 7:47 PM
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Subject: RE: The Ansari/X-Prize has been claimed!
Way cool, the 2nd flight was on Monday and yesterday was the Party. My company shares a facility with scaled composites out in the desert. I didn't go watch the launch but several of my buddies did. $200K for such a short ride but what a rush!
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